Humidifying-radiator unit



F. E. GROSVOLD.

HUMIDIFYING RADIATOR UNITY. APPLICATION FILED MAY 31.1918.

- PatentedSept. 21,1920. Z.

III/VENTOR I Fffirwm/d A TTO RIVE Y8 FRED"E. GROSVOLD, OF EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN.

HUMZDIFYING-RADIATOR UNIT.

Application filed May 31, 1918. Serial No. 237,419.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED E. GRosvoLD, a citizen of the United States residing at Eau Claire, in the county of an Claire and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Humidifying-Radiator Unit, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a humidifier for radiators and has reference more particularly to a radiating unit which has a receptacle for water bordering the edges of the heating space through which the heating medium is circulated. v

An object of the invention is to provide a radiating unit having a humidifier associated therewith and which unit may be attached at any desired point of a complete radiator. This unit is suitable for any method of heating in which radiators are employed.

A further object of the invention is to provide a humidifier in a radiator unit so that the heat radiating capacity of the unit is not materially reduced by the provision of the humidifying feature thereof.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the'novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a radiator provided with a radiating unit embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical section in the plane of a unit showing the details of construction; and

Figs. 3 and 4 are horizontal sections on lines 33 and 14 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, 5 is a radiator unit in which a chamber 6, through which the heating medium is circulated, is provided with a partition 7 to form a chamber 8 which borders the top, bottom and side edges of the chamber 6. The chamber 8 is provided with a removable cover 9 forming part of the unit. By removing the cover, the chamber 8 may be filled with a liquid which will be heated by the heating medium circulated through the member 6. The cover 9 has perforations 10 to allow the vapors generated within the chamber 8 to pass out into the room where the radiator 11 is located.

The chamber 8 has, preferably at the bottom, a drain cock 12., The radiator unit 5 is, in outward appearance, identical with any of the other standard units forming the radiator; but the heating chamber 6 is smaller than the chambers of the standard units because of the partitions? formed therein to separate the heating chambers from the liquid-carrying chamber 8. In consequence, the moisture-supplying radiator unit 5v can be placed at any desired position in the radiator; and any number of such units may be interposed at any desired places in the radiator.

The number of radiating units in the radiator can be increased or decreased atany time, as the moisture-supplying radiating' unit will not interfere with the desired change. The unit will not disfigure the radiator as it is of the same outline as any of the standard units, and the heat-radiating capacity of the moisture-supplying unit is not materially impaired by the provision of the moisture-supplying means. 7

The chamber 6, as will be noted, has'the customary passages 13 through which the heating medium passes in and out of the chamber. These passages will necessarily be in close proximity to the partition 7 but they will lie outside of the liquid chamber 8.

While I have described the principle of operation, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made as are with in the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A radiator unit comprising a heating forated cover for the Water chamber at its 10 upper end.

8. A radiator unit comprising a, heating chamber and a Water chamber bordering the heating chamber at the top, bottom and side edges cf the unit, said Water chamber being peri cmted at the top of the unit.

FRED E. eneevenn. 

